Water Marbling With Oil Paint

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Water marbling with oil paint.

Slowly drip the paint into your liquid starch mixture. Before we got started we made a comb by taping toothpicks into a small strip of card stock. Put a few drops of either watercolor or food coloring. You should be going for a milky look to your paint.

Dilute with some warm water to make it more fluid to pick up with your droppers. Add oil color mixture to water. The paints we tried are oil based so this was. Pour a small amount of vegetable oil into a dish and add food coloring.

If you add too much water and you will lose the vibrant colors. Lay out your paper over your work surface to project from paint. To water down your paint a bit add equal parts water to your acrylic paint and mix with a wooden skewer. Pour an inch of water give or take into a shallow pie pan or baking dish.

Sometimes we did little drops. Since spray paint is oil based the paint floats on water. Then we just poured the paints on top of the water. Pour oil into little bowls it does not take much.

Generally when the activity of painting comes to mind we think of paintbrushes. Add watercolor paints to your clear plastic cups. Marbling with oil marbling with oil. The oil paint method of marbling is a bit more labor intensive but it allows you to create totally customized colors.

Add some water to your shallow pan about halfway through. Basic supplies step 1. Creative learning for kids. Marbling with oil and food coloring step 1.

And because the paint is oil based there s less risk of the pigment sinking to the bottom of your water bath oil and water you know. The word on the internet was that you could create a fun marble effect on all kinds of things using a tub of water and some spray paint. In one cup add some vegetable oil. Wear disposable gloves this was a must in keeping messes to a minimum as oil based paints.

Mix oil and color.